Red Badge: Chapter One



Red Badge: Chapter One

1. What does the camp look like?

2. How far away is the enemy?

3. What message does the Tall soldier bring?

4. What words does the narrator use to show a sarcastic tone?

5. The narrator begins to focus on the youthful private. What is his tent like?

6. What sort of sentences does the author use when describing the tent?

7. What tone is the author setting when he uses the phrase "eagle-eyed prowess"?

8. How had the young soldier (Henry Foster) imagined war?

9. How had his mother discouraged him?

a. Why might her words be "yellow light upon the color of his ambitions?"

b. How does his mother react to his big news?

c. What is her advice?

d. How did Henry expect her to react?

e. Is her speech wise or foolish? Explain.

10. What is Jim’s attitude towards fighting and running?

a. Would Henry’s Mom approve?

b. Does Henry approve?

 

Chapter Two

1. What is Henry doing his calculations on?

2. Who is he measuring himself against?

3. Why does he hate the slow generals?

a. What does that show about him?

4. Crane uses symbolism to describe the enemy "acros the river"

a. What does he compare the enemy to?

5. Just a few paragraphs later, what does Crane compare the regiment to?

6. What does a rather fat soldier attempt to do?

a. Why is this more alarming than they thought?

7. The Loud Soldier and Henry come to an argument. About what?

a. Does henry feel all that he says?

b. In other words, does he speak his thoughts?

c. Explain.

8. What does Crane mean by the word "suffering" in the last paragraph?

Chapter Three

1. How has the regiment changed over the course of the march?

2. Why are the hats important?

3. Why is running to his first battle a good thing for the young soldier?

a. How would it be worse if he had to sit and think about it?

4. What forces him to fight and prevents him from running?

5. Why do the ranks open to avoid the corpse?

a. What is "The Question"?

6. War is compared to something. What is it compared to?

a. Why doesn’t the author talk about the Southern soldiers that way?

7. Why does Henry feel superior to everyone else?

a. Is he?

b. Explain.

8. What does the Loud Soldier give him?

a. Why?

b. Why does he give it to Henry? (think)

 Chapter Four

1. At the beginning of this chapter, there is a long skein of dialogue that in’t connected to anything.

a. Who is supposed to be talking?

b. Why effect is an author trying to get by doing that?

2. Why are the men relieved at the Lieutenant’s wounds?

a. What does Crane compare it to?

3. How do all of the retreating men look?

a. Why do they look that way?

4. What is the "composite monster"?

 

 Chapter Five

1. What are the seven hundred bonnets being compared to?

2. Does Henry have much faith in his officers?

a. Explain.

3. How does henry become a successful soldier?

a. What does Crane compare him to?

4. When he feels rage,what does he feel it against?

5. Crane notes that neither the men nor the officer were in "heroic" or picturesque" poses. Why might that be important to a reader?

6. When Crane describes a dying man, does he use eloquent language or plain language? Why?

7. Why do the cannons continue to fire after the enemy has retreated?

8. Henry is surprised at Nature. What has Nature been doing?

a. What does that say about Nature?

Chapter Six

1. Why does Crane choose the word "ecstasy" for Henry?

2. Why does the new battle dishearten the men so much?

3. Again, what is the monster?

4. What happens to the men that are standing near him?

a. Does Henry really have a mind of his own?

5. Why does he run?

6. What was the result of that battle?W

a. Why is that result the opposite of what he wanted?

Chapter Seven

1. Crane writes that hsi runnin was the work of "a master’s legs."

a. What does he mean by that?

2. Henry looks to nature for answers.

a. Why does he say that Nature has an aversion to Tragedy?

3. How does the squirrel help Henry?

4. How does Crane describe the place where the dead soldier is?

a. Why does he describe the soldier in such detail?

b. Why the ants?

5. Is nature truly a "chapel"

Chapter Eight

1. Which way does Henry run?

a. Why?

2. Henry thinks that "Nature was not quite ready to kill him."

a. Why does he think that?

3. What does the crowd of wounded look like?

a. Crane writes a bout the wounded in more serious, reporter like phrases. Why?

4. Why does enry try to avoid the Tattered Man?

5. Why does Henry run from him?

Chapter Nine

1. The title finally gets used.

a. What is the "Red Badge of Courage"?

b. Is Crane being ironic?

c. Explain.

2. Who is the spectral soldier?

3. Why does Jim begin to run?

a. How does Crane’s style change here?

b. Is there something noble in that run?

c. Why does he want them to leave him be?

4. How does the soldier die?

a. Is it a courageous death?

b. What does he die from?

Chapter Ten

1. Crane writes that the soldier "it" was laughing in the grass.

a. Why might the body be laughing?

2. How does Henry try to dodge the tattered man’s questions?

a. Is the tattered man very bright?

3. Why does he bandon the tattered man?

a. Should he abandon him?

Chapter Eleven

1. What are the “debates” that Henry has in himself that “drain” him of his courage/fire?

2. Why would a defeat for the army be better for Henry ?

3. Why did Henry envy the corpses?

Chapter Twelve

1. What are the soldiers fleeing from?

a. What does Henry have to throw away?

b. What "voice" is Crane in when Henry tosses away the pamphlets?

2. Describe the retreating army.

3. How did Henry get hurt?

a. Does he seem badly hurt?

4. Who "rescues" Henry?

5. Why does the man help out Henry?

a. Why can’t Henry help himself?

 Chapter Thirteen

1. What lie does he make up?

a. Why?

2. Are these people happy to see him?

a. How many of the others ran?

b. Why doesn’t Crane come right out and say that?

3. Is Henry enjoying his wound?

a. Explain.

4. Is henry grateful for the nursing because he feels pain or for the excuse the wound gives him?

a. Explain.

5. Why doesn’t he surrender the blanket? 

 

Chapter Fourteen

1. What vision does Henry have when he wakes up?

2. Why does he explode at his "friend"?

a. How might the friend’s kindness hurt Henry?

3. How has his friend changed?

a. Does Henry envy this?

b. How else does the friend show "growth"?

4. What is the point of Wilson’s little speech at the end of the chapter?

a. What does Henry think?

 

Chapter Sixteen

1. What is the battle scene like when the first come to it?

2. Henry starts to feel cocky. How do we know?

a. What stupid thing does he say?

3. What attitude does he take about war now?

4. Why does the Lieutenant shut him up.

5. Look at the last passage.

a. Why is it so impersonal?

 Chapter Seventeen

1. What is henry’s attitude?

a. What words show that attitude?

2. What does Henry seem to remember about yesterday?

3. Why is he angry?

a. Why does he feel rage? (think)

4. What happens during the battle?

a. What can he see?

b. What can he hear?

c. What can he feel?

5. What does the youth do wrong?

a. Why isn’t he proud to be a "war cat"?

6. Is he a hero?

a. How did he become one?

Chapter Eighteen

1. What is happening to Jimmie Rogers?

2. Why did the two of them leave camp?

a. What do you suppose their real reason was?

3. What does the general do near the wounded man?

a. What does that tell you about the general?

4. What order do they hear the general give?

5. How many of those ‘mule drivers" will come back?

6. What part of the message does Fleming understand?

a. What does he miss?

7. The officers are compared to shepherds. How is that true? 

 

Chapter Nineteen

1. Crane changes tone a little here. What is the forest doing to Henry?

2. Why does he charge cross the field like a lunatic?

3. When Crane writes that they "were becoming men again," what does he mean?

4. What gets them to keep on attacking?

5. What happens to the flag?

a. Why did he want to stay close to it?

b. How is the death of the flag sargeant symbolic?

Chapter Twenty

1. Who finally gets to carry the flag?

a. How does he get it?

b. What does he think that allows him to do?

2. What allows the men some safety?

3. Why are they all slinking back to the lines?

4. What was the Lieutenant able to get his men to do?

5. What were they then able to do?

a. Is Henry shooting?

 

Chapter Twenty-One

1. How does another regiment react to the return of Henry’s regiment?

2. Why was the regiment reproached?

3. What compliments does Wilson and Fleming recieve?

a. What were they saying about the officers moments before?

 

 Chapter Twenty-Two

1. How does the description of battle change, now that Henry isn’t a combatant?

a. Does the author seem to show a preference?

2. What is Henry doing?

3. How does the orderly sargeant get injured?

4. Why might Henry’s body be "revenge"?

5. Where was his friend?

 

Chapter Twenty-Three

1. How do the men react to the call to charge?

a. Why does that surprise Henry?

2. What do the Southerners do?

3. Why do you suppose Crane spends so much time on the rival flag bearers death?

4. How do the prisoners act?

a. Which one seems to act as Henry would?

5. When the two men ccongratulate each other, whatare they congratulating each other for?

a. How is that ironic?

 

Chapter Twenty-Four

1. How has the youth changed?

2. Crane writes that he now has a "quiet manhood."

1. What is that manhood? 



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